Featured posts on front page

Question

How can display featured posts at the top of the front page? Followed by the remaining posts.

Currently they display at the top of each page of the pagination.

Here's my loop.hbs:

{{! Previous/next page links - only displayed on page 2+ }}
<div class="extra-pagination inner">
    {{pagination}}
</div>

{{! This is the post loop - each post will be output using this markup }}
{{#foreach posts}}
{{#if featured}}
<article class="{{post_class}} featured">
    <header class="post-header">
        <h2 class="post-title"><a href="{{url}}">{{{title}}}</a></h2>
    </header>
    <section class="post-excerpt">
        <p>{{excerpt words="26"}} <a class="read-more" href="{{url}}">&raquo;</a></p>
    </section>
    <footer class="post-meta">
        {{#if author.image}}<img class="author-thumb" src="{{author.image}}" alt="    {{author.name}}" nopin="nopin" />{{/if}}    
        {{author}}    
        {{tags prefix="on"}}    
        <time class="post-date" datetime="{{date format='YYYY-MM-DD'}}">{{date format="DD MMMM YYYY"}}</time>    
    </footer>    
</article>    
{{/if}}    
{{/foreach}}    

{{! This is the post loop - each post will be output using this markup }}
{{#foreach posts}}
{{#unless featured}}
<article class="{{post_class}}">
    <header class="post-header">
        <h2 class="post-title"><a href="{{url}}">{{{title}}}</a></h2>
    </header>
    <section class="post-excerpt">
        <p>{{excerpt words="26"}} <a class="read-more" href="{{url}}">&raquo;</a></p>
    </section>
    <footer class="post-meta">
        {{#if author.image}}<img class="author-thumb" src="{{author.image}}" alt="    {{author.name}}" nopin="nopin" />{{/if}}    
        {{author}}    
        {{tags prefix="on"}}    
        <time clas    s="post-date" datetime="{{date format='YYYY-MM-DD'}}">{{date format="DD MMMM YYYY"}}</time>    
    </footer>    
</article>    
{{/unless}}    
{{/foreach}}    

{{! Previous/next page links - displayed on every page }}
{{pagination}}

Here's my blog: http://netsca.pe/

The only featured post currently is How to Install Ghost on AWS | Amazon EC2 for free - the Complete Guide.

As you can see, it is displayed at the top of the third page of posts, as opposed to at the top of the front page.

I had a read of Stack Overflow: newest post with specific tag on the front page but still can't figure this out.

Also had a read through this: The Ghost Blogging Support Forum: Show Featured post first on index page but still nowhere.

Answer 1

Firstly credit to @subic from ghost.slack.com who kindly tested my theme and pointed me in the right direction.

After having a read of the lengthy discussion GitHub Ghost Issue: Query (get) helper #4439 recently closed, great news - helpers and filters are being added to Public API v1!

The {{#get}} helper #5619 has just been merged to master (still unstable), so the solution:

{{#get "posts" featured="true" as |featured|}}
  {{#foreach featured}}
    ...
  {{/foreach}}
 {{/get}}